Musings from Mount Mabu

摘要

This was going to be quite an expedition. Julian had been planning it for about four years. There were botanists, ornithologists, zoologists, mammalogists, herpetologists, bat people, general ecologists. And us. We came from Mozambique, Malawi, Tanzania, France, UK, Ireland and Switzerland. We met up in Mulanje, just over the border from Mozambique, a couple of days before blastoff. Most of us stayed in a very pleasant pension run by a lady from Tanzania who was delighted to be able to air her Swahili when she heard us using it.